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Article: Lucille Ball undergoes heart surgery
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 19, 1989
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LOS ANGELES Lucille Ball, 77, known to millions as the daffy
red-haired star of "I Love Lucy," had a heart attack Tuesday and
underwent emergency surgery. Her condition Tuesday night was
described as "very serious."
Her husband, Gary Morton, said he was with her at their Beverly
Hills home when she experienced "just terrible pain. . . . She'd
been feeling just great until this morning."
He said he was told Ball was undergoing a heart-bypass
operation.
Ball, who had been in poor health in recent years and had a mild
heart attack last May 11, was conscious when brought by ambulance to
the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at noon. She was
wheeled into the operating room ...